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With the international high-level conference TUMIVolt, the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) sets the scene:
We build a new global market place for electric and digital mobility! Connecting mobility & energy providers, contractors, cities & urbanists, the public & private sectors as well as investors and donors.
Registration here: https://transformative-mobility.org/news/tumivolt [2] . Please direct your questions or interest to info@transformative-mobility.org [3]
The International Transport Forum (ITF), together with European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI), the US Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS), are pleased to announce the holding of a Research Day on “Transport Connectivity for Regional Integration”. This Research Day will be held in Leipzig, Germany on Tuesday 21 May 2019, in conjunction with the International Transport Forum’s 2019 Annual Summit (22- 24 May 2019).
The objective of the Pre-Summit Research Day is to bring together top academics researchers and practitioners to present and discuss topics relevant to the Summit’s theme, providing highly valued input to the Summit’s core programme.
It is critically important that research results are brought into practice, especially considering the pace with which our transport system is currently evolving. The Research Day offers a great opportunity to exchange ideas not only between researchers, but also with representatives from governments, cities, and other decision makers.
While the 2019 ITF Summit on “Transport Connectivity for Regional Integration” will discuss connectivity in all of its dimensions (physical, institutional, digital, modal, operational) and will cut across individual/passenger travel and freight logistics and supply chains, the Research Day will limit its scope to specific topics. In particular, in order to plan their actions and investments for the coming years, policy makers need the input from researchers to provide knowledge and solutions on how to:
Moderation of the Day: Tatiana Samsonova (International Transport Forum, OECD, France)
9h30-9h45: Welcome and Introduction of the Research Day
Young Tae Kim (International Transport Forum, OECD, France)
9h45-10:00: Connectivity for regional integration – challenges, opportunities, perspectives
Dr. Jaehak OH President, National Transport Strategy Planning – The Korea Transport Institute, KOTI on behalf of ITF 2019 Presidency Country
10h00-11h20: Innovation and New Mobility Services
Moderator: Clara de la Torre (European Commission, DG RTD)
Alexander Nitschke (Ministry for Regional Development and Transport of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Evangelos Bekiaris (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas/Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece)
Youlim Jang (Korean Transport Safety Authority, Korea)
11h20-11h40: Coffee Break
11h40-13h00: Sustainable Transport Solutions
Moderator: Karen Vancluysen (POLIS Network, Belgium)
Catarina Heeckt (London School of Economics, LSE Cities, United Kingdom)
Kristīne Malnača (Transport and Telecommunication Institute, JSC Ferrus, Latvia)
Florian Lorenz (Lorenz Consult, Mobalance Research Consortium, Austria)
13h00-14h00: Lunch break
14h00-15h20: Freight and Logistics Management
Moderator: Robert Missen (European Commission, DG MOVE)
Agustina Calatayud (Inter-American Development Bank) and and John Mangan (Newcastle University)
Wolfgang Schildorfer (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Department for Logistics, Austria)
Tale Ørving and Olav Eidhammer (Institute of Transport Economics, Norway)
15h20-15h40: Coffee Break
15h40-17h00: Air Connectivity
Moderator: Jagoda Egeland (International Transport Forum, OECD, France)
Alessandro Bombelli (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
Tae Hoon Oum (WCTR Society, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Canada)
James Wiltshire (International Air Transport Association, Switzerland)
17h00-17h30: Key points and conclusions of the Research Day
Tatiana Samsonova (International Transport Forum, OECD, France) with Sessions Chairs
Download the full agenda and background information:
Participants are welcome to attend a reception organised by Leipzig Halle Airport starting at 18:00. Additional information on the program of the event, transport and registration can be found here: http://2019.itf-oecd.org/innovation-effectiveness-and-efficiency-humanitarian-air-cargo [6]
Date: The Research Day will take place on Tuesday, 21 May, one day prior to the official opening of the ITF Summit on Wednesday, 22 May.
Where: The venue for the Research Day is Leipziger Messe, Leipzig.
Who can attend: The event is aimed at researchers and policy makers involved in transport connectivity for regional integration questions.
All participants must be registered to the ITF Summit. Practical considerations depend on your current situation, as detailed below.
Please note that there will not be a shuttle service to the venue, Leipziger Messe. The Leipziger Messe is easily accessible by public transport from the city centre and official hotels. More information here [11] .
ITF Summit badges will be ready for collection at CCL Registration Desk.
Welcome Lunch (12:30) Sponsored by MOLIT, Republic of Korea
Opening and Welcome Remarks (13:45)
Photo Session (13:50)
Keynote Speeches (14:00)
Connectivity Masterplan for Leipzig and its Region
Korea’s Initiatives in Public Transport & Smart Mobility
Session 1 (14:30)
Travel behaviour change and shared mobility: Impacts on public transport
Will travel behaviour change significantly in the next decade? Will public transport services change significantly in the next decade? How might demand for public transport services evolve in the next 10 years? How should public transport supply and regulation adapt?
Chair: Andrew Jackson, Managing Director, Consulting Jackson Ltd.
Speakers :
Travel Behaviour: What has Changed?
Weak signals and outliers – emerging behavior and how it might matter
Shared mobility in Korea: Impacts & social conflicts
Discussants:
Coffee Break (15:50)
Session 2 (16.20)
Effective policy frameworks for responding to changing environments and demand
How have governments responded to changing demand on public transport systems to ensure they provide the services needed by citizens at affordable cost? What contracting arrangements have proved most successful and most flexible?
Chair: Guangzhe Chen, Senior Director, World Bank Group
Speakers:
The experience of reforming bus concessions in Santiago de Chile
Good practice in concessions for public transport
Integrating Public Transport System in Seoul Metropolitan Region: Experience & challenges
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Session 3 (17.40)
Regional connectivity: Public transport and strategic development
Public transport is lifeblood of employment markets. Investments in metro and rail systems can transform regional economies. But which kinds of investment deliver the biggest benefits what can research usefully bring to decision-making?
Chair: Stephen Perkins
Speakers:
Le Grand Paris Express, autonomous regional metro, economic and urban impacts
Seoul metropolitan rapid railway: Impacts on people’s life & urban development
15 years of KTX operation: Impacts and future direction
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Practical Information:
Date: The 8th International Public Transport Forum will take place on Tuesday, 21 May, one day prior to the official opening of the ITF Summit on Wednesday, 22 May.
Where: The venue for the forum is Leipziger Messe, Leipzig.
Registration: If you are registered to the ITF Summit, you can attend the International Public Transport forum at no extra cost, up to the capacity of the venue. To confirm your attendance, please email Mr. Youngkook Kim at Youngkook.Kim@itf-oecd.org [18] to register for this Forum.
Please note that there will not be a shuttle service to the venue, Leipziger Messe. The Leipziger Messe is easily accessible by public transport from the city centre and official hotels. More information here [11] .
ITF Summit badges will be ready for collection at CCL Registration Desk.
Akkon Hochschule, Leipzig/Halle Airport and Volga-Dnepr Group are pleased to invite you to an exciting and dedicated full-day workshop focusing on the needs of the International Humanitarian and Disaster Response Community.
Block A
12:00 - 16:00 (including a break): Learning & Workshop
Block B
17:00 - 19:30: “Open Planes” & Loading Demonstrations
Block A is a mixture of presentations, discussions, working groups and panels with facilitators from the academic community, the commercial sector and NGOs/government. Block B is designed to showcase the unique capabilities of the aircraft and technical teams, and also for the humanitarian community to network and ask questions of the private sector transport community.
Where: The venue is Leipzig/Halle Airport.
Who can attend: Any participant registered for the Summit.
How to register: Please indicate your interest in attending the event (either the whole event or Block B only) via the contact mentioned below.
Fee: There is no fee for this event.
Transport: Transportation will be provided. Details will be announced upon registration.
Security: Registered participants will be asked to send a copy of their passports to the event organizers prior to the event for security clearance reasons no later than 17 May 2019.
Ms. Cornelia Duncan
Marketing Manager
Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG
Phone: +49 341 224 1167
Cornelia.Duncan@mdf-ag.com [20]
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Road freight transport is forecast to continue to grow substantially in most countries. The anticipated increase in infrastructure capacity will not, on its own, be sufficient to accommodate projected traffic levels at socially acceptable cost. Approaches that relate to both, the vehicle fleet and the infrastructure are needed. Using high capacity vehicles (HCVs) is one of the most efficient measures to absorb some of this growth and to reduce CO2 emissions. In hand with this come new policies for extending the life of road assets.
This session is based on recently published ITF-reports which are results from two working groups: Policies to Extend the Life of Road Assets, By mitigating deterioration caused by trucks (PELRA) and High Capacity Transport: Towards Efficient, Safe and Sustainable Road Freight.
The session examines international experience with HCVs and discusses policies to extend the life of road assets by mitigating the road infrastructure wear. Measures designed to improve the environmental performance of road freight can often contribute to longer life span of road assets. The consequences of these approaches on other transport modes, industry and society are discussed.
Jointly responsible for the strategic agenda of the road administration on transport and logistics. The current focus is on network use optimization and sustainable freight transport.
Involved in policy-making on weights and dimensions of commercial vehicles and in the assessment of Field Operational Tests with automated and cooperative vehicles on public roads. Loes Aarts is President of the International Forum for Road Transport Technology (IFRTT) and former chair of the OECD-ITF working group Policies to extend the life of road assets.
Alan McKinnon is Professor of Logistics in the Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg. A graduate of the universities of Aberdeen, British Columbia and London, he has been researching and teaching in freight transport / logistics for 40 years and published extensively on many different aspects of the subject. Much of his research in recent years has been on the decarbonisation of logistics. Professor McKinnon has been an adviser to several governments, parliamentary committees and international organisations, including the ITF/OECD, the World Bank, European Commission, the United Nations and the IPCC. He was chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Logistics Council and the Transport Advisory Group of the EU Horizon 2020 research programme.
Jerker Sjögren is economist (Umeå University/School of Economics, 1972). He has a long career within both public and private sector as management consultant or head of different organizations. Since beginning of 2016 Jerker Sjögren is an independent consultant within his own company, Jesjo Konsult. From March 2011 Jerker Sjögren has been responsible for building up and operating CLOSER, a new Swedish arena for transport efficiency, focusing on innovation and research. High Capacity Transport (HCT) is one of three focus areas for CLOSER. Since 2015 Jerker Sjögren has been chairman for the ITF/OECD working group on HCT. Jerker Sjögren was earlier Senior Adviser at the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications responsible for strategic logistics issues and coordinator of the Swedish Logistics Forum.
At the European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services (CLECAT), Ms Miglė Blusevičiūtė is focusing on road and maritime transport policy issues at the European level, aiming to integrate sustainability aspects into logistics supply chain. Prior to that, Miglė worked on environmental and sustainability issues pertaining to road transport at the European headquarters of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and also as a consultant for Hyundai Motor Europe. Holding a Master’s degree in EU policy studies, she gained experience at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market and Industry, as well as the World Trade Organisation.
Responsible for executive leadership and strengthening relations with partner universities involved in the research and teaching of public administration, public sector leadership and research into public policy and regulation. Chris has had a 20 year career in the Australian public service working in senior executive positions in health, transport and central agency portfolios. Chris’s PhD examined regulatory reform in the Australian trucking sector and current research examines the international transfer of models of road transport regulation, as well as the implications of digital regulation and compliance in the road transport sector.
This “MaaS-terclass” will engage with participants to chart out the policy role in guiding the design and uptake of “Mobility as a Service” (MaaS).
Transport faces an enduring paradox – at peak hours and in the busiest areas, our cities and networks are both congested and awash with unused capacity. Against this backdrop are people who simply want to get from point A to point B in the most responsive, flexible, reliable and affordable way. As in other areas of their lives, users want to have the option to choose the most convenient ways and value their trip experiences.
Transport has been a siloed world of independent and separately operated and regulated services, but the future of urban mobility may now be more aligned with other “as-a-service” models where actors engage directly to access the services that provide them with the most value. The number of actors offering new transport services is growing as technology creates new possibilities in accessing shared resources, automating vehicle systems and connecting supply and demand. MaaS digitally joins up different transport, information and payment services into a smooth and reliable customer-driven experience. In this “MaaS-terclass”, we will explore role for policy in facilitating its implementation and uptake.
Key questions:
• What is Mobility as a Service? A product? A concept? An ecosystem?
• What is the core value proposition that MaaS can deliver to people?
• How well positioned are service providers to deliver on that proposition?
• Where is MaaS today? Where might it be tomorrow?
• Are there key areas where concrete policy action (on standards, on regulation, on legal aspects, on the allocation of space…) can overcome roadblocks to broad adoption of MaaS?
• What principles should be embedded in the regulatory framework around MaaS?
Philippe Crist is Advisor for Innovation and Foresight at the International Transport Forum (ITF) at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He coordinates the research of the ITF’s Corporate Partnership Board and manages international research projects for the ITF’s 59 Member countries. His current work focuses on disruptive urban mobility scenarios and examines how car-based and active mobility, public transport and taxis must adapt to these. He is also leading work on Data science and public policy within the ITF investigating new strategies to leverage knowledge derived from new and rapidly growing data sources to improve transport decision-making. In 2016 he won the Danish Cycling Embassy's Leadership Award for Cycling Promotion. His other work currently looks at managing mobility in rapidly growing urban areas, assessing GHG emission strategies in the transport sector, as well as investigating national transport asset and network management strategies. He also does much of his best thinking on a bicycle.
Timothy is a key advisor and thought leader on the future of transportation and automation, with a strong track record to deliver innovative multi-modal transportation and land development projects. He is the Founder of City Innovate, a smart city accelerator. Timothy was the Strategic Partnerships lead at Waymo/Google X, helping commercialise a Moonshot company while being fully immersed in AI with the world's most experienced automated vehicle technology. Prior experience includes Chief Innovation Officer for San Francisco’s transportation agency, leading the US Smart City Challenge, the agency’s Strategic Work Plan that met its 50% private auto/50% sustainable mode share goal 3 years early and the Vision Zero traffic safety programme.
Krista Huhtala-Jenks has been working on developing the revolutionary Mobility as a Service concept for several years. At MaaS Global, the world's first true MaaS operator with its Whim service, Krista leads a dual role as the Head of Go-to-Market, and Head of Ecosystem & Sustainability. She focuses on rapidly expanding Whim to new markets, working closely with all stakeholders interested in making MaaS a reality. Having previously worked on MaaS policy and legislation at the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications she strongly believes that MaaS is the win-win solution for people's mobility needs and the society. Besides her day job, Krista moonlights as a hard core metal head.
Karen Vancluysen was appointed as Secretary General of the Polis network in September 2014, after having been the network's Research Director for 8 years. Since 1998, she has been involved in European urban transport networking and policy activities and many EU research and innovation projects covering a wide range of urban mobility topics. Polis is the leading European network of cities and regions focussing on urban transport innovation. For 30 years already, members have been working together to develop sustainable and innovative urban mobility solutions for the city of today and tomorrow. Polis supports the exchange of experiences between European local and regional authorities, facilitates the dialogue with other actors of the transport sector, including industry and research, and acts as the urban mobility voice of its members towards the European institutions. The network engages in debates around topical issues such as MaaS, automated transport, electromobility, and shared mobility services.
Paulo Humanes is Head of Global Strategic Business Development at PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG, a German company specialising in software solutions and consulting services for traffic and transportation, mobility, and logistics. His international career includes over a decade in the UK in transport planning with Stirling Maynard and as Technical Director in Jacobs Consulting, he has an extensive background in transport planning and modelling. A passionate transport professional, he is interested in the future of mobility and how it will impact lives, businesses, government, and cities. He is also an Advisory Board Member of Newcastle University. In his role with PTV, he applies his expert knowledge in traffic and transport planning in his work with governments, businesses and cities, helping them to rise to future challenges and develop better, greener and safer transport solutions on local, regional, national and global scales. A Portuguese national, Paulo speaks six languages fluently.
This panel will examine the impact of increased connectivity on tourism growth and sustainable development. Specifically, it will showcase examples of where tourism has increased as a result of improving connectivity. Tourism has experienced steady growth in the last decade and this trend is expected to continue, with an average annual increase of 3.3% in international tourism forecast by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Improved transport connectivity facilitates more tourism, especially in remote areas and on islands. Yet unchecked growth in the number of visitors can bring negative impacts such as depleting resources, increasing CO2 emissions, and higher living costs for people residing in the area. Tourists also have different mobility needs from those of residents, and peaks in tourist traffic can disrupt services for locals.
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Ali Aslan is an international television presenter, moderator and journalist. His career has included working for global news networks such as CNN, ABC News, Channel News Asia and Deutsche Welle TV.
Mr. Adrian Gane has been Regional General Manager in Sales, at Etihad Airways since July 2012. Mr. Gane is currently CEO of a major lobbying organisation in the UK, and a senior Government Affairs Director and advisor with Etihad Airways based in Abu Dhabi. Mr. Gane served as Managing Director of Amadeus Gulf from April 14, 2011 to July 2012. He served as Commercial Director and a Member of the Management Board at OnAir Switzerland Sarl since February 2006, with extensive commercial and political experience gained in a variety of roles held internationally (Far East, Middle East, Europe) and in the UK.
Angus Mckenzie has joined the government as a councillor of the city of Cape Town since August 2016.
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson is the Minister of Transport and Local Government of Iceland. He has been in this position since 2017. He is also the Minister for Nordic Co-operation and Chairman of the Progressive Party.
As Head of the Regional Development and Tourism Division in the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, Alain Dupeyras oversees OECD work on tourism, on rural policies and on other regional and territorial issues. Alain works closely with Members and Partners, the private sector and other international organisations to develop policies that address major challenges in all these policy areas. The Tourism Committee [21], the Regional Development Policy Committee [22], and the Working Party on Rural Policy [23] are key OECD fora to assist governments in the assessment and improvement of these policies. Through the Working Party on Tourism Statistics [24], Alain also contributes to an improved measurement and analysis of tourism services.
Dr. Oh obtained his PhD degree for transport studies at University College London in 1990. Since 1992, he has been working for The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI). Dr. Oh was Vice President and Director of National Transport Strategy Planning at KOTI during 2011 to 2017. During the last 27 years, Dr. Oh has project managed more than 70 of KOTI’s transport projects. During 2006 to 2011, He was the project manager of the national R&D, “Transport Connectivity and Transfer technology Development.” He has played a key role in innovating transport systems for green growth and formulating infrastructure policies for the Korean government. Since 2009, Dr. Oh has been the research project manager of High-Speed Rail(KTX) economic development which aims to promote regional and urban development through KTX station area development. At present, he is a SC Member of WCTR-Society and an Editorial Board Member for the WCTR Journal of Transport Policy. Also, Dr. Oh is Chairperson of International Scientific Committee of EASTS(East-Asian Society of Transportation Studies).
Today, commuting is a major challenge for cities, companies, and their employees. It is becoming increasingly severe due to human settlement and mobility patterns, congestion, absence of sufficient public transport, driving bans in cities and many other factors. Only a joint effort of affected cities, mobility solution providers, companies, science, and the commuters itself can solve this problem. To balance these heterogeneous interests, it requires a broad dialogue addressing the following question: How can the involved parties cooperate to develop new sustainable and intermodal mobility solutions for commuting?
To discuss this question and learn from existing best practices, the Volkswagen Group’s Sustainability Council brings together the perspectives of city authorities, commuters, and mobility providers.
You want to join the event? Please apply via email to Ms. Pauline Sprenger, Office of the Sustainability Council: pauline.sprenger@volkswagen.de [25]. Please point out your interest and professional relation to the topic
Connected vehicles communicate with infrastructure and other vehicles surrounding them to provide the driver with information for travel decisions. This session will focus on connectivity technologies that will transform road transport in the coming years, including vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technology. It will examine issues for passenger as well as freight traffic, including technological requirements for connectivity, international standardisation, safety and enforcement implications. Possible funding sources for implementation will also be discussed.
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As its chief executive, Bhatt promotes policies that advance the development and deployment of intelligent transportation technologies throughout the United States. He has testified before Congress about the positive safety impact of intelligent transportation technologies, including connected and automated vehicles. Bhatt is a leading voice in transportation on technology’s ability to save lives and reduce crashes on U.S. roadways. He speaks extensively about the importance of vehicles to communicate with each other and all roadway users as one of the best ways to improve safety and reduce congestion. He is also passionate about reducing transportation’s carbon footprint and the need to provide seamless mobility and transportation choices to people no matter where they live. Bhatt was appointed as a transportation leader by three governors. While serving as Executive Director for the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), the agency launched the Road X program, which is focused on deploying innovative technology solutions such as connected vehicles and teaming with the private sector to shape the future of transportation. Prior to CDOT, Bhatt was Cabinet Secretary for the Delaware Department of Transportation. He was also a presidential appointee at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Bhatt has served as Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) and the Executive Committee of the I-95 Corridor Coalition; he was a member of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Agenda Council on the Future of Automotive and Personal Transport. Bhatt graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Western Kentucky University. He lives with his wife and two young daughters in Washington, DC.
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Axel Threlfall is Editor-at-Large, Reuters, based in London. Alongside his editorial duties, he hosts high-profile engagements and thought leadership events for and on behalf of Reuters and Thomson Reuters, such as the Newsmaker series and the World Economic Forum news programs in Davos. He was previously Lead European Anchor for Reuters Digital Video. Prior to joining Reuters, Axel spent four years as an anchor for CNBC in London. Before that, he was an editor with The Wall Street Journal in New York and a news reporter for Bloomberg in London. He has also advised businesses and NGOs on their dealings with the international media. Axel is frequently asked to moderate events for international organizations, including the United Nations and the OECD. He has a BA in History from Durham University and a postgraduate degree in journalism from City University, London.
Mr. Christoph Bergdolt is the Vice President for Product and Technology in Swarco AG Group. In his position he is responsible for all the product companies of the ITS division and corporate Innovation and Technology. Areas of activities cover most of the ITS domain ranging from smart mobility, urban traffic control, highways and tunnels, car parking, e-mobility to public transport.
Christoph has more than 20 years’ experience in managing director positions, global sales and business development in the transportation sector. He hold executive positions at Siemens (Member of the Siemens One Board Airports / Transportation), Atos and other global enterprises. He has a cross-cultural sensitivity with broad academic foundation, in Law and Master in Business Administration (International Business).
Travel patterns of women differ from those of men in developed and developing countries alike, and in both rural and urban areas. These differences are evident in modal choice, time of travel, trip purpose, routes, trip chains, and travel distance. These distinctions stem from systemic differences in access to resources, household responsibilities, travel preferences, safety concerns, and social norms surrounding mobility for women. As a result, women experience unique time and resource constraints with respect to their travel activities. They also face safety and security issues that are more acute and pervasive than for men. Socio-economic gender disparities tend to be self-reinforcing, as mobility itself provides access to sources of income, education, healthcare, and other opportunities. A better understanding of women’s travel patterns can inform transport planning and policies which enhance connectivity for women and help them reap the social and economic benefits associated with it. This session will examine gender-specific aspects of mobility.
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Juliette Foster is an award-winning broadcaster and businesswoman. She has worked for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and has anchored flagship programmes at Bloomberg Television, Sky News and BBC World Service Television.
Since 2013 Diego DIAZ has held the positions of President of SNCF International and International Director of SNCF MOBILITES.
Diego DIAZ began his career as a Product and Project Manager for Thales Avionics before joining Bombardier Transportation where he held several leadership positions in the Services and Light Rail Divisions before being appointed Director of Strategy, Marketing & Sales.
Mr. Diaz holds a Master of Science in Aeronautics & Astronautics from M.I.T (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), a Master of Business Administration from the M.I.T Sloan School of Management and a French engineering degree from the “Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace” (ISAE-SUPAERO).
Ms. Carvajal is a specialist in the subject of negotiation and alternative dispute resolution. She obtained her MBA with an emphasis on Marketing at the University of San Diego in California and holds a degree in Law from the University of Costa Rica. Her work over the last decade has provided her with extensive experience in the area of public service. She has specialized in Alternative Conflict Resolution Methods and is currently a member of the Centro Internacional de Arbitraje y Conciliación Comercial (International Center for Arbitration and Commercial Conciliation). She was a member of Road Safety Committee, which is led by the Fundación Internacional de Automovilismo (International Automobile Foundation). As Minister of Public Works and Transportation in Costa Rica she achieved a fourfold increase in the investment of public works, the resumption of construction at the national airport, which was stalled due to conflicts, the transformation of the driver’s license system, the promotion of a new traffic law and the inclusion of road safety components in the design of road infrastructure. She is currently Transport Sector Manager for South Asia at the World Bank. Karla is also leading the Gender Task Force for the World Bank's Transport Global Practice, working to operationalize the gender agenda in the transport sector.
Dr. Bipasha Baruah conducts interdisciplinary research on gender, development and globalization; women and work; and social, political and economic inequality. Dr. Baruah’s current research focuses on climate change and social justice. It aims broadly to understand how to ensure that a global low-carbon economy will be more gender equitable and socially just than its fossil-fuel based predecessor. Dr. Baruah frequently serves as an expert reviewer and consultant on gender equality issues to international development and environmental protection organizations.
Mattias Landgren is State Secretary to Tomas Eneroth, Minister for Infrastructure. He holds a Master’s Degree in Law from Uppsala University. Prior to serving as State Secretary, Mr. Landgren held various positions at the public sector, including: Political Adviser at the Prime Minister's Office, Chief Legal Officer at the Building Workers' Union and Collective Agreements Expert and Head of Section at Unionen (trade union). He has also worked as a law lecturer at Stockholm University.
Heather Thompson brings decades of experience in the environmental non-profit sector to ITDP. Most recently, she has been advising clients, including the Asian Development Bank, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Environmental Defense Fund, in designing strategies that will have a large-scale impact. Ms. Thompson has been involved with ITDP for many years, initially as co-founder and Vice President of programs for ClimateWorks. Ms. Thompson has sat on the ITDP board of directors for the last eight years, serving as board chair for the last two years. She holds a MSc in environmental economics from the University of York, U.K. and a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of California, San Diego.
Rana Kortam is the Global Head of Women’s Safety Public Policy for Uber. She leads the company’s efforts around the issue, working with governments, researchers, NGO’s, as well as local policy teams in over 60 countries Uber operates in. Her passion is ensuring women find a safe ride and a flexible way to earn income in Uber.
A born and raised Egyptian, she previously led public policy for Uber in Egypt, shaping the future of regulation for the budding tech ecosystem.
A techie at heart, Rana graduated Summa Cum Laude from the American University in Cairo with a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering. Prior to joining Uber, she led developer relations for Google in the Middle East and Africa, before managing public policy for British American Tobacco in North Africa. Straddling the worlds of tech and policy, and a serious zeal for everything women empowerment, she is an expert in several public policy issues, including women’s mobility and safety, gender based violence especially in transport and public spaces, gender equality and economic enablement.
Launched in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to alter the socio-economic landscape along the Silk Road linking Asia and Europe. The first phase of these multi-billion dollar infrastructure investments focuses on developing and modernising means of transport covering highways, railways, ports, airports and pipelines. This “Modern Silk Road”, for which China invests several billions of dollar a year, aims to make Eurasia a thriving economic trading area. To advance this cause, China has entered into bilateral agreements with most of the countries from Eastern Europe to Southeast Asia.
Current estimates for required funding range between USD 4 to 10 trillion for the coming decade. To date, most financing has been provided by governments and multilateral and commercial banks. However, as this is finite, private investors, typically reluctant to allocate resources to riskier long-term projects, must be sufficiently encouraged to invest and yields must therefore be attractive. Besides funding, substantial reforms, such as improving financial integration and trade liberalisation, must be implemented within and outside of China. This session contributes to the BRI debate by discussing key questions: 1. What measures must be implemented to incentivise investments in these projects? 2. What is required to create conducive environments for the development of sustainable transport infrastructure projects? 3. How can international cooperation and coordination be maximised?
SESSION ORGANISER: International Road Federation (IRF)
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Programme overview available: here [44]
Contact person: Ms. Julia Funk – Data and Programme Manager, IRF at jfunk@irfnet.ch [45]
The 24th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Katowice, Poland delivered the Katowice Rulebook, implementing the Paris Agreement. This important moment marks the beginning of a process where countries need to start stepping up actions for climate protection and to define a clear policy pathway, especially for transport, where it remains one of the most challenging sectors to decarbonise. Currently, only 60% of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) have included any kind of transport measures and these measures often lack a comprehensive approach to address the challenges in reducing carbon emissions in passenger and freight transport. In addition, there are many other transport initiatives that have not been captured in NDCs, especially in emerging economies, where NDCs are often not aligned with national transport plans. It is recognised that governments will continue to have a significant role to play and the policies they implement will determine the direction of where the sector and its many stakeholders need to go. The transport sector has to start acting fast to provide the enabling framework for the sector to scale up action, by using available cost effective solutions to significantly reduce transport emissions, create co-benefits and change behaviour through the provision of reliable, safe and affordable services at the same time.
This roundtable serves as a platform for transport Ministers to focus on some of the above mentioned issues with leaders in the private sector and international organisations.
Joint Statement of Ministers participating in the Ministers’ Roundtable on Transport and Climate: Moving forward from COP 24 at the International Transport Forum’s Annual Summit on 22 May 2019
Melinda Crane is Chief Political Correspondent at Deutsche Welle-TV and hosts the talk shows "Quadriga" and "People and Politics" She was Senior Producer of "Global Players" on CNBC. She has moderated a wide variety of podium discussions and conferences for public organisations and private sector clients. Among her areas of expertise are transatlantic politics; women, family education issues; climate and environment; business and economics; new media and the internet. Crane holds a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School and a Doctoral Degree in political economy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Stientje van Veldhoven began her career in 1997 as personal assistant to Elly Plooij van Gorsel, a member of the European Parliament for the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). From 1999 to 2003 she served as an innovation policy officer at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. From 2003 she worked at the Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to the European Union as first secretary for research policy and as scientific and technological attaché. In 2007 Ms Van Veldhoven became a policy advisor at the European Commission, focusing on the coordination of intergovernmental initiatives. From 2009 to 2010 she was unit coordinator for the Zuidvleugel Randstad region at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. On 17 June 2010 Ms Van Veldhoven became a member of the House of Representatives for Democrats ’66 (D66), with policy responsibility for issues including sustainability, mobility, climate and energy, development cooperation, and agriculture, nature and food quality. From 2012 to 2017 she served as a member of the presidium and secretary to the D66 parliamentary party. On 26 October 2017 Stientje van Veldhoven was appointed State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management in the third Rutte government.
François Davenne, a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications d’Evry in 1988 and of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in 1999, has always promoted interdisciplinarity as a key factor for success. After experience in international satellite telecommunications, his first assignments were in the housing sector and required strong financial and legal skills. He was involved in policy and regulation of the sector, and managed key operational programmes, in particular for the city of Paris. After three years in the French Ministry of Transport working on railway safety and regulations, with the emphasis on European regulations, he was elected Secretary General of OTIF in 2012, where, since 1 January 2013, he has promoted interdisciplinarity and partnership building to expand the uniform regulations for international carriage by rail. He’s currently Deputy Director General of UIC, the International Union of Railways. He will become Director General of the organisation end of June 2019.
Umberto de Pretto is the Secretary General of the International Road Transport Union (IRU). He joined the IRU in 1995 as Head of Economic Affairs. He then became Policy Coordinator and Head of Strategy, and was appointed Deputy Secretary General in 2002. His vision looking forward to 2020 is that the IRU will lead the road transport industry in embracing innovation and making sure that the industry is ready for the challenges and opportunities ahead. After graduating from Ottawa’s Carleton University in Political Science, Economics and International Relations, he worked as a Legislative Assistant for Ministers and Members of the Canadian Parliament and then moved to Paris in 1992 to take on the position of Head of the Transport Division, to be shortly afterwards named Deputy Director of the International Chamber of Commerce, responsible for International Commercial Practices and Techniques.
Erik Jonnaert is the Secretary General of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), a position he has held since July 2013. Prior to his ACEA appointment, Mr Jonnaert was Procter & Gamble's (P&G) Vice President for External Relations in Europe and Asia. Mr Jonnaert began his career at Linklaters law firm, before moving on to gain over 25 years of public and regulatory affairs, communications, and stakeholder relations experience in various leadership roles at P&G. In addition to his ACEA posting, Mr Jonnaert is currently chairman of the steering committee of EATA, the European Automotive and Telecom Alliance, which aims to accelerate the deployment of connected and automated driving. Jonnaert is also on the Supervisory Board of ERTICO (advocating intelligent mobility solutions) and on the Board of the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Alliance. A Belgian national, Mr Jonnaert holds masters in law from the University of Ghent, Belgium and from Harvard Law School, USA.
Violeta Bulc is the European Commissioner for Mobility and Transport. She has been appointed to the office in November 2014. As Commissioner, Ms Bulc has placed priority on digitalisation and innovation in transport. Ms Bulc brings a diverse set of expertise and professional experiences to the role. Immediately prior to her appointment to the European Commission, she was the Deputy Prime Minister of Slovenia, with ministerial responsibility for development, strategic projects and cohesion. From 2013 to 2014, Bulc was Chief of the Program Committee of the SMC Party, Slovenia. She was also CEO of Vibacom Ltd, Sustainable Strategies and Innovation Ecosystems from 2000 to 2014. Between 1999 and 2000 she was Vice-President of Telemach, a telecommunications provider. A Slovenian citizen, Violeta Bulc earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Informatics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, as well as a Master's degree in Information Technology at the Golden Gate University of San Francisco.
Tomas Eneroth is Minister for Infrastructure of Sweden since July 2017, responsible for transport and infrastructure in the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation. He studied sociology and political science at Växjö University College. Before being appointed Minister for Infrastructure Mr Eneroth was Parliamentary Group Leader for the Social Democratic Party (2014–2017). Mr Eneroth has been a Member of Parliament since 1994 and during this time he has filled several different positions in different policy areas, including Chairman of the Committee on Social Insurance and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Industry and Trade. He was a political adviser in the Ministry of Education between 1996 and 2002, and State Secretary in the same Ministry in 1999.
Ms. Hutt Hesse holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Catholic University of Chile and she has completed International Finance and Business Administration programs at Georgetown University. She was a Professor for the Master’s in Public Policy program in the School of Economics and Business of University of Chile. From June 2014 to January 2018, she was a partner of Quiz Consulting, specializing in transportation studies. She was a member of the board of directors of the Mejillones port facilities company Complejo Portuario Mejillones and consultant for the think tank Consejo de Políticas de Infraestructura and think tank Horizontal. For 12 years, Ms. Hutt Hesse was a partner and Regional Director for Latin America at Steer Davies Gleave, a prestigious British consulting firm specializing in transportation. There she was in charge of operations in Chile, Colombia, and Puerto Rico, and later broadened the presence of the company to Brazil and Mexico. She was a founder member and also the coordinator and general manager for the Evópoli political party. From 2010 to 2014 she acted as Transportation Viceminister. During her office, she coordinated the creation of the National Transportation Policy and development master plans for public transportation and national port and rail systems, proposing a long-term vision for Chilean transportation. A year ago Gloria Hutt Hesse became Minister of Transport and Telecommunications in Chile. In her spare time, she does gardening and follows her passion of designing sewing.
Cécile Texier is the Sustainability & CSR Vice-President of Alstom, a key player in the transport sector, developing and delivering sustainable solutions focused on shared and electrical mobility. Cécile drives the Sustainability, CSR and Climate strategy, 3-year plan and policies, local communities investment programs, sustainability in marketing activities, extra-financial reporting and dialog with stakeholders. In 2018, she was also appointed Global Diversity Champion of the Company.
She initially joined Alstom Group as Environment Health and Safety analyst in 2005 to manage corporate Energy and CO2 programs. She had previous experience as environmental auditor at KPMG, leading assessments of environmental issues in the frame of merger and acquisition projects and verification of extra-financial data, and at the French National Institute for Environment and Risks (INERIS) where she started her career as environmental management consultant in 1997. She is also a Board member of the Alstom Foundation.
Cécile Texier holds a Civil Engineer degree from Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France.
Rafał Weber is responsible for matters related to road transport, public roads and road safety. Since 2015, he is a member of the Parliament. There, he is a member of the parliamentary committee of infrastructure and national defense commissions.
From 2014 he was the deputy director of the Provincial Traffic Center in Tarnobrzeg (Poland). In 2010-2014 and 2014-2015, the councilor of the City Council in Stalowa Wola (Poland). Mr. Weber is a graduate of the Higher School of Law and Administration in Rzeszów (Poland)
Dragos-Virgil TITEA’s third tenure as Secretary of State at the Ministry of Transport Romania started in 2018. His successive appointments rely on his in-depth interdisciplinary education and professional career in public/ private administration in the transport field, encompassing transport law, aviation and rail sectors and not only.
Dragos-Virgil TITEA holds a JD/LLB degree with the Bucharest University-Faculty of Law, along with post-university certifications in civil aviation security- airport access, monitoring and supervision, civil aviation internal quality audit and security management, as well as in internal affairs, classified information protection, security and governance.
His professional career comprises extensive mandates as a legal/administrative manager at the Romanian Administration of Air Traffic Services (ROMATSA R.A.), and a member of the Administration Board/Shareholders General Assembly at ROMATSA, as well as at the Romanian National Railway Company and the Telecommunications Society of the Romanian National Railway Company.
Saša Dalipagić was born on 20 May 1950 in Kakanj. He attended primary and secondary school (Gymnasium) in Mostar and graduated from the Road Transport College in Zagreb in 1975 earning the degree as road transport engineer.
1997 – 2015 until he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina he worked with the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton as Inspector for Road Traffic and Supervision of the Construction and Maintenance of Road Infrastructure. He has also been engaged as Traffic Court-Appointed Expert, having completed in that capacity a large number of expert reports for the courts in this Canton.
Mr. Grabert has worked for the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) for more than 20 years. He heads the Sustainable Development Mechanisms Programme of the UNFCCC, leading the work on market-based approaches to climate change mitigation. Prior to 2006 he served as a greenhouse gas emissions specialist and worked in numerous expert groups of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In addition, he also currently leads the secretariat’s work on Global Climate Action in supporting Non-State-Actors’ efforts towards the Paris Agreement. Before joining the United Nations, he was an industry and regional analyst for the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.
Mr. Grabert holds a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Wheaton College, Masters of International Economics from the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva, and has undertaken post-graduate studies in Management at Stanford University, University of Navarra (IESE) and London Business School, and in Development at Harvard University.
A Summit networking lunch around the theme of “Leading the change towards greater diversity in transport” will be jointly hosted by ITF, TUMI Women Mobilize Women, International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and the World Bank (Partners).
This session aims to highlight the role of leaders - women and men - in transforming the sector and promoting greater diversity in transport. It will be an opportunity for all stakeholders to share current developments and recent and planned initiatives on enhancing gender diversity in transport. The outcomes of this session/ key messages will be published in the 2019 ITF Compendium on Women in Transport and in other relevant channels by the Partners.
The luncheon will gather approximately 100 participants, representing governments, international organisations, business, civil society, media and academia in order to provide a wide range of perspective on the topic and encourage exchange and debate.
The participants will be seated at round tables (8-10 participants per table); each table will be hosted by discussion leaders.
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Ali Aslan is an international television presenter, moderator and journalist. His career has included working for global news networks such as CNN, ABC News, Channel News Asia and Deutsche Welle TV.
Mr. Chen assumed the role of Senior Director for the Transport Global Practice (GP), within the Infrastructure Vice-Presidency at the World Bank Group, in November 2018. In this position, he leads the formulation and implementation of strategy and programs for sustainable road, urban, rail, logistics, water and air transport, as well as key cross-cutting agendas such as road safety, climate adaptation/mitigation, gender, human capital development, disruptive technologies and financing. He has a leading role in the global Sustainable Mobility for All initiative, that gathers over 50 foremost international development organizations and key sector players to set the framework for sector coordination and development impact. Mr. Chen supports the development and delivery of knowledge and financing programs to country clients, overseeing a total portfolio of roughly $40 billion, in over 180 projects in more than 100 countries. He leads a team of some 250 specialists from over 80 nationalities, based in more than 40 countries.A Chinese national, Mr. Chen holds a graduate degree in Economics from Harvard University, USA, and B.A. in Economics from Zhongshan (Sun Yat-Sen) University, Guangzhou, China.
Cécile Texier is the Sustainability & CSR Vice-President of Alstom, a key player in the transport sector, developing and delivering sustainable solutions focused on shared and electrical mobility. Cécile drives the Sustainability, CSR and Climate strategy, 3-year plan and policies, local communities investment programs, sustainability in marketing activities, extra-financial reporting and dialog with stakeholders. In 2018, she was also appointed Global Diversity Champion of the Company.
She initially joined Alstom Group as Environment Health and Safety analyst in 2005 to manage corporate Energy and CO2 programs. She had previous experience as environmental auditor at KPMG, leading assessments of environmental issues in the frame of merger and acquisition projects and verification of extra-financial data, and at the French National Institute for Environment and Risks (INERIS) where she started her career as environmental management consultant in 1997. She is also a Board member of the Alstom Foundation.
Cécile Texier holds a Civil Engineer degree from Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France.
Mohamed Mezghani has been working for more than 25 years in public transport and urban mobility related fields. He has been elected Secretary General of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and will be taking office on 1/01/2018. He has been Deputy Secretary General of UITP the since January 2014. Until then, he has worked at UITP as Senior Manager (1999-2001) and Knowledge Director (2001-2006) chairing the department developing knowledge-related services for UITP members: professional training, research projects, thematic studies, technical advice, conferences, networking activities, information centre, etc. From 2006 till 2013, he has worked as independent consultant and Adviser to UITP on several technical assistance and training projects in Africa and the Middle-East and managed a number of projects involving numerous experts and multidisciplinary teams. Before joining UITP, M. Mezghani has been working as consultant in the French group, BCEOM, (from 1990 to 1999) more particularly in the urban mobility field. He has managed and carried out projects including policy definition, technical assistance and research activities in several countries in Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and Arab countries. During his collaboration with the French Agency for Environment and Energy Management, ADEME, (from 1988-1990), M. Mezghani carried out actions aimed at identifying and evaluating transport energy efficiency projects likely to be financed by the Agency in France. He has been graduated in Industrial Engineering (1987) from Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia and has a Master in Transport (1988) from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France.
Vera Scholz is Director Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure within GIZ where she started to work in 1999. She is working in development cooperation since 20 years. Her areas of expertise are climate change, management of natural resources, infrastructure (energy, transport and water), voluntary social and environmental standards, corporate social responsibility and public private partnerships for sustainable development. She has been working in Asia (India) and Africa (Kenya). Vera Scholz has a master in political science with focus on international relations.
Mary Crass is Head of Institutional Relations and Summit for the Paris-based International Transport Forum, an intergovernmental organisation linked to the OECD. She is responsible for the ITF’s relations with Member countries, international organisations and associations, and the annual International Transport Forum Summit in Leipzig each May https://www.itf-oecd.org/ [48]. She has contributed to the organisation’s work on sustainable urban travel, accessible transport and social inclusion, and crime and terrorism issues in transport. She served as sherpa to the ITF Secretary General on the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Urban Transport, and was on the drafting committee for the final report of that group delivered to UN Secretary General in October 2016.
She recently chaired the International Road Transport Association’s (IRU) Future of the Taxi Reflection Group and is currently co-chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Accessible Transportation Committee - subcommittee on Policy and Practice.
Prior to joining the OECD, Ms. Crass worked as a private consultant focusing on transport and environment issues for among others the UN Environment Programme, the European Commission and OECD, as well as private enterprise. She was previously with a U.S.-based environmental consulting firm specialising in environmental technical assistance work in developing countries and emerging economies.
Ms. Crass has a Masters Degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with specialisations in international economics and energy and environment policy and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.
The ITF’s Decarbonising Transport initiative is a global, data-driven, multi-stakeholder initiative of over 70 key stakeholders to support the transition to carbon neutral transport. It is the ITF’s major contribution to better understanding of how to ensure a low-carbon future for transport.
This initiative aims to build capacity to help close the gaps between climate commitments and carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions that mitigation actions will deliver on their strategic objectives by providing the best possible assessment of the impact of given mitigation policies.
This session will feature the ITF’s Decarbonising Transport initiative and the various related project outcomes; it will highlight existing and upcoming work streams and activities across different topics and regions.
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ITF Decarbonising Transport initiative [49]
Stientje van Veldhoven began her career in 1997 as personal assistant to Elly Plooij van Gorsel, a member of the European Parliament for the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). From 1999 to 2003 she served as an innovation policy officer at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. From 2003 she worked at the Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to the European Union as first secretary for research policy and as scientific and technological attaché. In 2007 Ms Van Veldhoven became a policy advisor at the European Commission, focusing on the coordination of intergovernmental initiatives. From 2009 to 2010 she was unit coordinator for the Zuidvleugel Randstad region at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. On 17 June 2010 Ms Van Veldhoven became a member of the House of Representatives for Democrats ’66 (D66), with policy responsibility for issues including sustainability, mobility, climate and energy, development cooperation, and agriculture, nature and food quality. From 2012 to 2017 she served as a member of the presidium and secretary to the D66 parliamentary party. On 26 October 2017 Stientje van Veldhoven was appointed State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management in the third Rutte government.
Umberto de Pretto is the Secretary General of the International Road Transport Union (IRU). He joined the IRU in 1995 as Head of Economic Affairs. He then became Policy Coordinator and Head of Strategy, and was appointed Deputy Secretary General in 2002. His vision looking forward to 2020 is that the IRU will lead the road transport industry in embracing innovation and making sure that the industry is ready for the challenges and opportunities ahead. After graduating from Ottawa’s Carleton University in Political Science, Economics and International Relations, he worked as a Legislative Assistant for Ministers and Members of the Canadian Parliament and then moved to Paris in 1992 to take on the position of Head of the Transport Division, to be shortly afterwards named Deputy Director of the International Chamber of Commerce, responsible for International Commercial Practices and Techniques.
Ms. Hutt Hesse holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Catholic University of Chile and she has completed International Finance and Business Administration programs at Georgetown University. She was a Professor for the Master’s in Public Policy program in the School of Economics and Business of University of Chile. From June 2014 to January 2018, she was a partner of Quiz Consulting, specializing in transportation studies. She was a member of the board of directors of the Mejillones port facilities company Complejo Portuario Mejillones and consultant for the think tank Consejo de Políticas de Infraestructura and think tank Horizontal. For 12 years, Ms. Hutt Hesse was a partner and Regional Director for Latin America at Steer Davies Gleave, a prestigious British consulting firm specializing in transportation. There she was in charge of operations in Chile, Colombia, and Puerto Rico, and later broadened the presence of the company to Brazil and Mexico. She was a founder member and also the coordinator and general manager for the Evópoli political party. From 2010 to 2014 she acted as Transportation Viceminister. During her office, she coordinated the creation of the National Transportation Policy and development master plans for public transportation and national port and rail systems, proposing a long-term vision for Chilean transportation. A year ago Gloria Hutt Hesse became Minister of Transport and Telecommunications in Chile. In her spare time, she does gardening and follows her passion of designing sewing.
Since 1 February 2016, Clara de la Torre is appointed Director for 'Transport' in the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation at the European Commission, marking the forth assignment at such position in the course of last 8 years. Previously, starting in 2014, she was responsible for the dossier 'Key Enabling Technologies', following a 3-years' appointment as Director in the field of 'Research and Innovation.' In her first post as a Director, from 2008 to 2010, she was in charge of 'Inter-institutional and legal matters related to the Framework Programme' at the European Commission.
After a couple of years in private sector, her professional career was focussing on the research policies which became the springboard to working opportunities at the European Commission in 1987. In the late 90's, she was dealing with 'National Research Policies & Intergovernmental Cooperation.' She was also working at the EU Joint Research Centre both in Brussels and Seville, where she was Advisor to the Director of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies.
Clara de la Torre has a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid.
With over 20 years’ international experience in the technology and transportation and sectors, Sharon Masterson currently works with the International Transport Forum (ITF) at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organisation of 59 member countries to facilitate global dialogue for better transport. In her role with the Corporate Partnership Board, the ITF’s platform for engaging with the private sector, she works with leading global enterprises to ensure transport policy discussions are enriched with a business perspective. Prior to joining the OECD in 2009, she spent ten years in commercial and operational management positions in Groupe Air France, Paris and Dublin and worked as Area Manager Benelux for a company supporting US tech companies launch in Europe. She worked as Business Development Manager in a tech startup and has also spent a number of years in Germany at Würth GmbH & Co. KG.
Mr. Grabert has worked for the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) for more than 20 years. He heads the Sustainable Development Mechanisms Programme of the UNFCCC, leading the work on market-based approaches to climate change mitigation. Prior to 2006 he served as a greenhouse gas emissions specialist and worked in numerous expert groups of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In addition, he also currently leads the secretariat’s work on Global Climate Action in supporting Non-State-Actors’ efforts towards the Paris Agreement. Before joining the United Nations, he was an industry and regional analyst for the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.
Mr. Grabert holds a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Wheaton College, Masters of International Economics from the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva, and has undertaken post-graduate studies in Management